The rocket launched by Blue Origin, which revolutionized private space travel, exploded in the air. The rocket, which was not carrying passengers, crashed to the ground as it rose into the air.
on commercial space travel. Winning the race with SpaceX and the world’s first performing private commercial spaceflight Blue Origin has announced that they will quietly orbit Earth in the last few months. commercial space station He was testing new rockets for In a test conducted today, however, things did not go well.
The New Shephard rocket of the company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, immediately after launch exploded in the air. In the statement made after the explosion, it was announced that no people were harmed.
Only stayed in the air for 1 minute
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This rocket, which is a different model of the New Shephard rocket, which has been launched many times before, was to be launched into space due to an experiment to be held today. unmanned Immediately after this launch, the rocket was in the air for only 1 minute, due to a failure of the thrusters. exploded into a fireball in the air. The capsule of the rocket, which was carrying passengers but was empty during the flight, was found just before the explosion. separated from the rocket and landed in the desert.
Company officials said in a statement 1 hour after the explosion, “Looks like we encountered an anomaly in flight. There was a problem with the thrusters but the escape system was designed as intended.He stated that the explosion was caused by the propellants.
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Although the exploding rocket is only used for unmanned experiments, this rocket Almost identical to the New Shephard rocket that Jeff Bezos launched into space. The founder of Amazon has not yet made a statement about the incident.
Source :
https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-suffers-first-launch-failure/